Sanchi - An important Buddhist Site






Sanchi is one of the most important Buddhist sites in India. Sanchi boasts of a stupa and several other ruins of Buddhist temples or chaityas. It is located in Madhya Pradesh, India at a distance of around 40 kms from Bhopal.


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